Ken Ono, STEM advisor to the provost and professor of mathematics, joined the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society’s Distinguished Speaker Series Friday evening to share his journey to becoming the mathematician he is today. At the event, Ono presented to members about his life and his studies of mathematics.
The Jefferson Society is a student organization focused on discussion of a broad range of members’ interests, which periodically invites faculty, community members and other accomplished individuals to speak at weekly meetings as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series. At the first event of this series for the fall semester, the group featured Ken Ono, a mathematician whose research focuses on number theory. At the meeting, Ono spoke about his life and offered advice to students in attendance.
“I’m actually not proud of the student that I was in high school and college, but I’m proud of the way that this path allowed me to recognize what really matters and what really matters is choosing the subject that feels right, that meshes well and is in sync with my talents and that I’m really passionate about,” Ono said…